Mark Zuckerberg Supports Obama on Immigration
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s lobbying group FWD.us filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court along with other tech leaders, supporting the executive actions taken by President Barack Obama in November 2014. The President’s actions will confer new rights upon a certain category of undocumented immigrants living here. However, those actions were blocked after a case was filed against it by Texas and other Republican-led American states. The Supreme Court is more likely to hear the United States v. Texas case in April 2016. If the Supreme Court hears arguments in the case in April, as scheduled, a ruling can be expected in June 2016.
Immigration is one of the most important issues that many tech leader are willing to fight for. Most of them are in favor of the President Obama’s actions that would let undocumented immigrants whose children are green card holders or U.S. citizens and undocumented youth who were minors when they were brought the U.S., to stay here in the U.S.
The brief FWD.us has filed claims that the President’s actions on immigration reform, would increase gross domestic product by hundreds of billions of dollars, if approved by the Supreme Court. In the brief, reiterating its support for the President’s actions, …show more content…
He wrote, “As I travel around the world, I see many nations turning inwards. I hear growing voices for building walls and distancing people labelled as ‘other.' Whether it's refugees, undocumented immigrants or underrepresented minorities, I hope we have the wisdom to understand that the best path forward is always to bring people together, not divide them. We are a nation of immigrants. We are one world. And we are all connected. We must have the humanity to welcome these children and to bring people together -- and that's what we told the Supreme Court
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s lobbying group FWD.us filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court along with other tech leaders, supporting the executive actions taken by President Barack Obama in November 2014. The President’s actions will confer new rights upon a certain category of undocumented immigrants living here. However, those actions were blocked after a case was filed against it by Texas and other Republican-led American states. The Supreme Court is more likely to hear the United States v. Texas case in April 2016. If the Supreme Court hears arguments in the case in April, as scheduled, a ruling can be expected in June 2016.
Immigration is one of the most important issues that many tech leader are willing to fight for. Most of them are in favor of the President Obama’s actions that would let undocumented immigrants whose children are green card holders or U.S. citizens and undocumented youth who were minors when they were brought the U.S., to stay here in the U.S.
The brief FWD.us has filed claims that the President’s actions on immigration reform, would increase gross domestic product by hundreds of billions of dollars, if approved by the Supreme Court. In the brief, reiterating its support for the President’s actions, …show more content…
He wrote, “As I travel around the world, I see many nations turning inwards. I hear growing voices for building walls and distancing people labelled as ‘other.' Whether it's refugees, undocumented immigrants or underrepresented minorities, I hope we have the wisdom to understand that the best path forward is always to bring people together, not divide them. We are a nation of immigrants. We are one world. And we are all connected. We must have the humanity to welcome these children and to bring people together -- and that's what we told the Supreme Court